Copyright © 1998 by Werner Reichhold
AHA
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There's a
Path
Choice of Minutes
Centering in
Egypt
Project in 4 Scenes
It
Floats
Hardly worked
Open
System
Volatile Memoir Resident
Sand of
Sailors
Contacts
Swells
Advised
The Meantime as
Evidence
Nocturnal Steps
Those Wooden
Shoes
Preparation
Dispensing
White
Tiberon Views San Francisco
Perhaps
No Death
Edges Not
Kept
There's a Path
nourished by patience. Being thirsty makes one find a well easier. Trusting a dromedary in the desert means trusting yourself. Through the senses of an animal supposed to find water, tribesmen / women are sensitive, control their gestures
pursuing
water.....instead at the end
I'll walk
home
Jealousy occurs reminding us that the fluids are always on their own way, and there, where they are, behave as at home. Maybe out for a new hunting-lodge, a new huntress, it uses the words mostly hyphenated, because each syllable touches a closeness to related meanings. The writer feels asked to show the link moist-warm
next place milk......meanwhile
............
intermitting
alternates
........................permissiveness
............on
rebarbative angles
...........her parcel doesn't end
smoke questions
the burning of letters
as if
lighting back
into hand prints
recalls the sender's
heat.
What's with the brain, the fluids that can't forget, forgive, foresee, reacting like a sea in service? Rearrangements try to keep up with the core, the valuable items. When was the long rainy season, remember? You changed the bucket under the leaking roof. Spots still on the floor as if they also know when it was and why
one stream borrows
into fish bones' white
on such
an effusion
...........along
scales
.............persuasion
............augmented
..summons but
less
.........acquiescence.
....incomplete
skies
..................take off
take on
adamantine subtotals;
they may
vivify
............loitering gestures
if they wish to
foregather
in the wolf-moon's eye
on ovaries
heir home not yet
parted
waters.........she the
shell.
Choice
of....minutes, lined up simply in place with
us
....................no
repetition
....................more sentence than verse.
In confusion,
on so little....quick enough?
off
to............the managed, the predicted,
promised
.....nearby.....hot by having
such a distance
one in the dark
from
consolation
[Some of the mysterious levels of stability in the
macrocosm
are directly related and depend on the
uncertainty in quantum events.]
not encapsulated.......a season in front of behind it
[To fix the meter a 1 650 763.73 times the wavelength
of the
orange line in the spectrum of Krypton 86 when held
at 15 C
at the pressure of 760
mb)
.....................................on wings
not worn
.....................................we fly
.....................................amplified
.....................................for the two of us
she tailors
.................................... air
around us
at the table......knives we use.......in
focus
balcony and bat......the insects part of no
collision
dance......for a sip......blood stretching
into the herb garden.
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Act II
waiting in anticipation is part of the
performance.
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Centering
in Egypt
in four scenes
I
columns......instead of walls.....the light through
temples
the conversation beaming.....as the guide says
en- trance
...........................................I catch a sun
ray
...........................................reflected
from the
Sphinx
...........................................my eyes
feel
beaten
...........................................with the
heat of a
star
...........................................the
goddess half an animal
II
skin of such doors.....their mental
framework
echoes.....fish-fermented.....white bones
inshore.....I hear the broken mountain side.....re-erected
III
inrush..................................tide
replaced
............................................out
of a wave's
tongue
............................................at the
cliff's
fold
............................................particularly
bluish
............................................cold
insiders dwell in cracks
was this a part of being
liquid?
IV
I say thanks.........................the
mummy................centers the pyramid
smile...............king-released.............queen-naked
incense................................as
it goes astray........beyond astrology
glare......................................game................................sand
storm curtain
PROJECT
in four scenes
handed
on..........................intertribal
I
preset
curvature
at the East-West parable
light distortions
dimmed tales lure the eye
leeward a default screen
II
a new password curls up
on the tip of a
finger
presidential preference
selects a
menu.........the cursor
points to security
management
III
almost dark
where the Euphrates and Tigris
keep
washing waters;
swing in the cradle's red cedar
sinks
weight....on a baby's eye
IV
eye of a
Sufi
...............no blink not a linear
astonishment
for emergency;
sandy stage........the dancers'
whirl
timed, whirl well beyond slow oil
silk
road.........................................masked
It
floats
I
.....................I trace
it
.....................summer
.....................keeping
sand
corals sway in one direction.....tenderly
sized
.......................................................not
pure
.....................the shiver's shelter
unsinkable
.....................walking with small
buildings
.....................adjusted
addresses
.....................over and paused in how
little
.....................I don't mind
doors.
.....................Hours we find
repeated
.....................July-yellow stares at
freckles.
.....................Sea-distance
.....................think
of the same
.....................submarines see you.
II
Thirst be dear.........river
mistaken
minerals use two thirds...she
says
..............referring to juice
bubbles
III
Much more fairly
recognized
.............acrobats catching the torch
.....................for feel by
themselves
antedating..............that then
bleeds
coloring half of a ring......joined names
coupled
...........................................in
winter
.................................how often hail in
wishes
.................................often and
later......honey
IV
Leaving it
oracular....unresisting....apples and Eves
a quotation
that sours.....running out of lips.
The
sweat....kneeled nailing....mosquitoes come to lick
help
maybe tailored.....magnified on pillows
hair
arrangements....as I lift the pile
ants....not
escorted....combing the hair at
dawn
................................this alone
only
................................invitational
................................words
relocated.
Hardly worked
against the distance...underneath
.............each
others honeyed one
.............much the same
emerging
banished.....imprisoned...egg-pale
the
trail one flight from indicated
prints blown away
fins
left silently their former
size
.....................................landward
................................land
handed
anchored in translucency as if one
sees
through competing fabrics...faces
lifted
..........................................from old
salt.
.....................The profile modified
inlets.
................Indictment a thing to
unwrap.
......The mold a triangular scull
focused
.............................................in
ape eyes
..........debarked
..........the
prospect might be abundant
..........geographically
shifted to a place
..........covered or imagined
green
................................................a
hairdo
...................................
impact
....................................on
impenitence
.........its unstitched clothes shiny
satin
Saturn a foreigner......................veiled
I
adapt the scale...................the
scares.
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